Marcel Odenbach, Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können video, 2011
foto: Frederik Walker
Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können video installation, exhibition view STAMPA 2013
Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können video installation, STAMPA 2013
Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können video installation, STAMPA 2013
Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können video installation, STAMPA 2013
das waren noch Zeiten I / II, 2012, collage, water colour, ink on paper / collage, water colour on paper, 36 x 48 cm each, STAMPA 2013
Basler Leckerli, 2-teilig, 2011, collage, water colour, ink, graphite, pastel on paper, 36 x 48 cm each, STAMPA 2013
MARCEL ODENBACH
Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können
5. February 2013
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6. April 2013
Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können
Interpenetrating and sliding incessantly between the ‘intimate’ and ‘general’, Odenbach´s art in its “encyclopédisme” relates therefore not only to the topic of (neo-)colonialism, racism and ‘otherness’, but also touches on the more comprehensive problem of one´s own identity and the identity of events in general. The decisive impulses from Africa and the strong interest in ‘otherness’ remain his artistic and most personal need, as seen in his most recent video tape Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können (Not able to swim in the Shipwreck, 2011). Somehow the attribute of being a ‘William Hogarth’ of German and European Video Art is appropriate: now as then, skin colour as a symbol of one’s origin serves as a background for settings like the one of the (unexpected?, disturbing?) art consumers in the Louvre.
Odenbach’s approach allows not least some very general statements. One of them is that history can surely help us to understand our time, but understanding our time might be also very valuable in the reverse process of looking at history. Slavko Kacunko
STAMPA gallery shows an exhibition of Marcel Odenbach with the video installation Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können (2011) as well as a serie of new collages.